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Nil-trans, PHUTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D c NrTEu STATES OLIVER W. KETOHUM AND GEORGE O. SKILTON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO CANADA, ASSIGNORS TO SAID KETOHUM.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 237,880, dated February 15, 1881. Application filed November 11, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, OLIVER WILLIAM KETGHUM, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, manufacturer, and GEORGE CHAR-LES SKIL- TON, of the same place, shoe-maker, have join tly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of boots provided with a lap-over instep secured by fastenings; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents the boot opened, ready to receive the foot, and Fig. 2 as it appears when closed. Fig. 3 shows a boot cut low and having only one strap. Fig. 4 is a detail of the buckle for securing the strap to the lap-over instep.

As will be seen by the drawings, A are three straps, secured to the lap-over instep by rivetbuckles B, hereinafter more particularly explained, and passing through the staples O on the quarter D, meet at a point beneath the lapover instep, where theyjoin a strap, E, which continues beneath the flap, and, passing over the front of the ankle or instep, is carried through a hole, P, on the opposite quarter, Q, and thence around the back of the ankle to the buckle F, secured in the usual manner to the lap-over instep.

It will be seen by this connection that in order to put the boot on the foot it is merely necessary to loosen the strap E from the buckles F, when the lap-over instep can be drawn open sufficiently to allow the foot to enter without withdrawing the straps A from the staples O or the strapE through the hole P in the quarter, before referred to. It is therefore merely necessary, when the boot is on the foot, to draw the strap E,which, being connected to the straps A, will draw down the lap-over instep tight against the upper, while the strap E serves as a support to the ankle when buckled to F.

As the size of the instep varies in people who wear the same sized boot, we manufacture the boot with a buckle, B, provided with a rivet, b,

which passes through a hole in the strap A. When the shoe-maker is fitting the boot on the person purchasing it he can shorten or lengthen any one of the straps A,and when adjusted to suit the instep will close in the rivet b to secure the straps A in the position desired.

The above-described construction of the buckle B forms no part of the present application, but will hereafter form the subject-matter of a separate application for Letters Patent.

We do not confine our invention to the use of three straps, A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In some cases one strap, A, may answer. In others two, three, or more may be required. As the pull of the straps A on the staples O may strain the quarter 1) the straps L, which hold the staples Q, are lengthened, so as to be lasted into the sole at M M M, as shown in Fig. 1.

What we claim as our invention is 1. In a hoot having a lap-over instep, one or more straps, A, secured at one end to said lap and adapted to pass through one or more staples,O, all substantially as shown, on the quarter D, and provided with an extension, E, adapted to pass beneath the lap around the front of the ankle or instep, through the hole P, on the opposite quarter, thence around the back of the ankle to a buckle, F, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. In a boot having a lap-over instep, the straps A, each adjustably secured at one end to the lap by a buckle, B, and adapted to pass through staples O, in combination with and fastened to the strap E, adaptedto pass around the front of the ankle, through the hole P, thence around the back of the ankle to abuckle, F, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The straps A, in combination with the staples O, secured to the quarter D by the straps L, which are lasted and secured to the sole at M, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

OLIVER WILLIAM KETCHUM. GEORGE CHARLES SKILTON. Witnesses:

DONALD O. Rrnou'r, OHAs. W. BALDWIN. 

